Point Pleasant

Point Pleasant is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The borough is a Jersey Shore community situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that divides the Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean at the Manasquan Inlet, and the borough derives its name from this location. The borough is bounded on the north by the Manasquan River, on the east by Point Pleasan...

Point Pleasant Beach

Point Pleasant Beach is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The borough borders Bay Head and Point Pleasant in Ocean County and both Brielle and Manasquan in Monmouth County. It was ranked the eighth-best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. The borough is situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow ...

Bay Head

Bay Head is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. Bay Head is situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, also known as Barnegat Bay Island, a long, narrow barrier island that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. Together with Mantoloking and Point Pleasant, Bay Head is considered part of the Jersey Shore’s “Gold Coast”. Bay Head was incorporated as a Borough b...

Manasquan

Manasquan is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The borough’s name is of Lenape origin, variously described as deriving from “Man-A-Squaw-Han” meaning “stream of the island of squaws”, “an island with enclosure for squans”, “island door” or “point” / “top”. Manasquan, Maniquan, Mannisquan, Manasquam...

Wall

Wall Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Allenwood and West Belmar are census-designated places and unincorporated communities located within Wall Township. Other unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the township include Algers Mills, Allaire, Baileys Corner, Blansingburg, Carmerville, Collingwood Park, Glen...

Brielle

Brielle is a borough located in southern Monmouth County, New Jersey along the Manasquan River. Brielle was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 10, 1919, from portions of Wall Township, based on the results of a referendum passed on June 3, 1919. The borough was named for Brielle, a town in the Netherlands.
Located at the southeastern corner of Monmouth Coun...

Spring Lake

Spring Lake is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The borough borders the Monmouth County municipalities of Belmar, Lake Como, Sea Girt, Spring Lake Heights and Wall Township. New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Spring Lake as the 240th best place to live in New Jersey in its 2010 rankings of the “Best Places To Live” in New Jersey.
The Spring Lake 5 Mile Ru...

Sea Girt

Sea Girt is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Sea Girt was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 29, 1917, from portions of Wall Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 1, 1917. The borough was named for the estate of Comm. Robert F. Stockton, who had purchased a property in the area in 1853. In the Forbes magazine 201...

Mantoloking

Mantoloking is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. The borough is a Jersey Shore community situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, also known as Barnegat Bay Island, a long, narrow barrier island that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. The town is linked to the New Jersey-mainland via the Mantoloking Bridge, linking the town with Brick Township across the Barnegat Bay. M...

Tinton Falls

Tinton Falls is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. The borough was formed as New Shrewsbury by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on August 15, 1950, based on the results of a referendum held on July 18, 1950, after breaking away from Shrewsbury Township. The borough is home to the highest waterfall on New Jersey’s coastal plain. Grover’s ironworks was the centr...

Howell

Howell Township is a township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. Howell was formed from territory taken from Shrewsbury Township under an act of the New Jersey General Assembly passed February 23, 1801. The township, as formed, included in addition to its present area all of what is now Wall Township, Lakewood Township, Brick Township, and all the boroughs along the Atlantic Ocean from...

Toms River

Toms River is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, and the county seat of Ocean County. Formerly known as the Township of Dover, in 2006 voters approved a change of the official name to the Township of Toms River, adopting the name of the largest unincorporated community within the township. In 2006, Toms River was ranked by Morgan Quitno Press as the 15th safest city in the Unit...